Armando Veve, a Philadelphia-based illustrator of Puerto Rican heritage, bridges the personal and universal with meticulous works in graphite, watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache. His art, rooted in traditions from cave paintings to illuminated manuscripts, becomes a medium for literary, dreamlike reflection. As Veve describes, his work “distills the beauty, absurdity, and horrors of being alive,” while embracing hybridity as a space of belonging. This exhibition concludes the programming cycle by affirming that creativity is both a means of survival and a means of transcendence.